O'Reilly Velocity, the Web Performance and Operations conference, is happening in Santa Clara, CA from June 25-27. Learn from your peers, exchange ideas with experts, and share best practices and lessons learned. Register here.

Sign up for this free 30-minute webinar exploring how new technology can determine which ads have been seen by users and will discuss the C3 Metrics Labs analysis of over 2 billion impressions.

Torbit is Hiring!

Care about performance? Torbit is hiring! Interested in working on technology that touches millions of people? Care about making the internet faster and better? Join us at Torbit. We've got openings for a ton of engineering positions. At Torbit, we use lots of Golang, Node.js, JavaScript and PHP to solve big challenges using tools like Riak, Redis and Graphite. We'd love to chat with you even if you don't fit a specific job description. To learn more, go to http://torbit.com/jobs

How to Manage and Scale a Website that Generates 200 Million Unique Pageviews Per Month

Improved load times means more repeat visitors, higher search engine placement, and increased overall traffic. When your website is on a single server, that server has to perform many functions, such as database, web, and application processing. As a result the server can't be optimized since what's best for a database server, isn't great for a web server. By separating your services onto dedicated servers you’re able to optimize each of the servers for a particular task.

To achieve optimal scalability, you’ll need to leverage the power of managed storage, load balancing, and a content delivery network. Reality Check Network successfully manages a website that generates 200 million unique pageviews per month using the following server cluster configuration:

Thin Application - Each subset of the application resides on a different set of servers allowing separate systems to fail without taking down the site - such as comments can be broken, search can be broken, media can be broken, but the website still loads

If you want to create your best HTML5 applications for any browser, platform or device, you want NetAdvantage for jQuery. Our HTML5 controls and components make it fast and easy for you to build visually stunning and highly performant business intelligence applications and dashboards that work on any modern mobile device.

When you’re looking for the fastest, lightest, most complete toolset for rapidly building high performance Web 2.0 applications, you want NetAdvantage for ASP.NET. Our controls provide you with the ability to easily develop web applications along with great tooling support from Microsoft via Visual Studio IDE. Not only can you build Office-centric web applications, now you can create iOS mobile applications with versatility and performance typically reserved for desktop apps.

Load very large volumes of data at extremely high refresh rates with the fastest ASP.NET Grid on the market, which utilizes a pay-to-play model that reuses architecture to keep your application’s footprint low, while keeping the responsiveness high;

Quickly create a custom look and feel using CSS and apply it to the entire application with ease using the styling framework and AppStylist tool;

Expand the reach of your ASP.NET applications beyond the desktop and onto iPhone and iPad devices, with Touch supported controls available right out of the box; and

Import and export Microsoft Excel workbooks in high-fidelity with speed and ease. The compiled assembly reads and writes widely-interoperable XLS/LSX file format and isn’t dependent on Excel, so there’s no heavy overhead.

The DevOps PaaS Infusion Meetup NYC

The DevOps PaaS Infusion Meetup NYC– We invite you to register to this all new meetup, and join us for the upcoming Cloud Computing Summit where a leading panel of CTOs and technical evangelists will explore the opportunities created by emerging cloud technologies – the most disruptive technology since the Internet. You’ll hear real world use cases from Microsoft, Aditi, Cisco, GigaSpaces, C24, a Fortune 100 Financial Institution, and learn how cloud computing is opening a whole new world of possibilities for enterprises and ISVs. Register here: http://bit.ly/IpgpaN

You can also join us for an additional meetup – Deploying your Big Data App on OpenStack at the OpenStack NYC Meetup – Register Here: http://bit.ly/JAwkC4

Test aiCache acceleration for free. No sign-up required.

We have set up aiCache on the Amazon Ec2 cloud to allow you to accelerate your website, test it, and optionally deploy in about 10 minutes. No sign-up required and its free.

You give us your website address and we spin up an AWS Micro instance running aiCache configured for your site. We then give you a simple configuration tool, if you want to further tune the Dynamic Caching.

You can then test your regular site and the accelerated site side by side in real time, from a third party testing service, complete with waterfall chart to tell you what is slow. With a few clicks you can tune the Dynamic Caching and re-run the test till you get the optimal config, unique to your site.

Want to deploy it? Great put in the AWS instance ID and Key and we will push it to your choice of live server.

Want help? We can have one of our engineers hop on and joint edit the config file with you, to work through tricky SSL and Session authentication. A do it yourself kinda engineer? Great context sensitive help is available of every line of the config file.

Want to save it for later, no problem. Want to download it for use on your own box, clicky-clicky free.

ElasticHosts Launches across North America

ElasticHosts cloud server hosting launched across North America this month, adding data centers in Los Angeles and Toronto to existing locations in London and San Antonio.

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LogicMonitor takes the hassle out of monitoring

LogicMonitor’s hosted monitoring proactively alerts you to issues before they negatively impact your business without you having to take an engineer away from development to spend hours configuring and maintaining a monitoring infrastructure.

Monitor entire stack with one tool. Keep tabs on power, network, hardware, virtualization, storage, operating systems and applications from a single web-based portal.

Flexible email/SMS alert routing & escalation: Ensure the right people get alerted at the right time.

New Relic - Real User Monitoring Optimize for Humans

NEW! Real User Monitoring. Get browser performance data directly from real end users. All of them! See exactly what real userʼs experiences are by monitoring transactions, JavaScript rendering speed and network latency all from their perspective.

Real-time visibility into: Gain valuable, real-time insight into browser response time Measure user satisfaction (Apdex) from both end-user and app perspectives Determine if bottlenecks are located in front end, the app, or connected systems.

The fact is, the IAB has issued recommendations that will redefine an impression and totally changes the game. Seen ad impressions will change more than 50% of all of your metrics, including Attribution. Knowing how to answer these questions can result in significant improvements in online advertising performance and puts you ahead of the rest of your coworkers.

This free 30-minute webinar will explore how new technology can determine which ads have been seen by users and will discuss the results of the C3 Metrics Labs analysis of over 2 billion impressions in Q4.

Using distributed data grids on high demand Web sites has become a common practice to provide scalability and high availability, but did you know that a distributed in-memory data grid such as ScaleOut StateServer® can be used to analyze in-memory data in near real-time?

The map/reduce development model has recently grown in popularity as open source solutions such as Hadoop have captured media attention. While popular for very large datasets, Hadoop uses a file system for storage, slowing down performance – and it can be hard to use. ScaleOut StateServer’s in-memory data grids do fully parallel map/reduce exceptionally fast by performing all operations on data stored in memory, avoiding I/O bottlenecks inherent in disk-based storage. With ScaleOut StateServer, data is analyzed in place reducing network traffic and simplifying development time by automatically pushing the user’s computational logic to every node in the grid. With integrated APIs that enable on-demand analytics, long computational runs are over. You don’t even need parallel programming skills.

ScaleOut StateServer is compatible with all major platforms and languages making it a highly adaptable development solution. You can even seamlessly migrate your on-premise data grid to and from the cloud for additional scalability.

AppDynamics Troubleshooting Java Performance for Free

AppDynamics is the very first free product designed for troubleshooting Java performance while getting full visibility in production environments. If you're an application owner and need to ensure high availability and performance--but not ready to purchase a full monitoring tool--AppDynamics Lite is build for you. Install in two minutes; be monitoring a Java Virtual Machine in 10 minutes.

ManageEngine Applications Manager

ManageEngine provides Enterprise IT Management suite of products. ManageEngine Applications Manager helps SaaS companies monitor their production applications and helps keep costs low.There is out-of-the-box support for monitoring application servers, database servers, servers and web servers from a single web console. In addition to support for IBM Applications, Oracle Apps and Microsoft applications, there is deep support for Open Source Applications like JBoss, Memcached, LAMP stack etc. Pricing starts at $795 for monitoring 25 servers or applications. Learn more about the Application Performance Monitoring tool.

Site24x7

Site24x7.com (from ZOHO) is a Website and Web Application Monitoring service. It helps you ensure your shopping carts and other web transactions work. It also helps you monitor the performance of your websites from a global point of presence. You can Sign Up for a Free Trial. The Professional Edition starts at $1 / Month. Learn more about the Website Monitoring Service.

CloudSigma

Utility style high performance cloud servers in the US and Europe delivered on all 10GigE networking. Run any OS, take advantage of SSD storage and tailored infrastructure options.

Instantly Scalable European Cloud Servers. Create virtual servers in the cloud that are fully scalable and adaptive. Control your servers via our web console or API. CloudSigma gives more power and control over your server infrastructure.

Keep control, increase scalability. Subscribe for capacity or pay as you go; with CloudSigma we give you the power and control you need.

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